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Two brief comments are suggested by the interesting work of Dr. F. H. Newman on the activation of hydrogen and nitrogen described in the Philosophical Magazine for March. The failure of the reaction product of the active nitrogen with sulphur, phosphorus, and iodine to give a test for nitrides is not evidence of the absence of a chemical reaction between those elements and nitrogen, for all three are more electronegative than nitrogen and the compounds formed would be sulphides, phosphides, and iodides, respectively. That this is in fact the case is shown in some experiments of mine with Dr. A. C. Grubb, which are now in process of publication, in which tests for sulphides and phosphides were actually obtained after exposing the corresponding elements to a stream of active nitrogen formed in the corona discharge. Our experiments did not include iodine.
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WENDT, G. Active Hydrogen and Nitrogen. Nature 109, 749 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109749b0
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